There are always lots of new things to remember at the start of a new school year - changes in classrooms, in rules, in school staff. Both teachers and students need to get familiar with these changes fast.
To help students get familiar with what’s new, consider starting the year with a multipl...

While putting the final touches on a lesson plan, I was struck with a decision about the class-ending activity. I know students will have questions and concerns about the readings and projects. I wanted the freedom and flexibility to choose the culminating activity in the moment. What could I do?
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Harvard’s Project Zero has created learning routines based on research, helping teachers garner a more thorough thinking process from students. See, Think, Wonder, is one such routine that engages students in visual multimedia such as pictures or videos.
This concept can easily be delivered usi...

The infamous 5Ws and H have been an integral part of journalism, storytelling, and an uncountable number of TV police dramas (Law and Order being the best, of course).
For years this structure has been helping students ask targeted questions as they dig deeper into factual information and uncover...

The value of multiple choice in education has been a topic of debate since its invention in the beginning of the 20th century. Initially, the US army constructed this type of assessment as a means for determining intelligence for recruitment (Ramirez, 2013). Provided this social validity, the test q...

In third grade, my classmates and I brought a wide range of items to school that signified the time in which we were living.
There was a black Sony walkman with padded headphones, a GI Joe figure, a Hartford Courant newspaper, a copy of Shel Silverstein's poem "Messy Room" and a video cassette of G...

Word Clouds (‘wordle’ to most) can be a dynamic tool for visualizing text and for presenting a group's thinking. They are AMAZING!
While planning for the Future of Learning Conference at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, I wanted to capture and share our participants' views on "What are t...